Senior Program Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

• Implement regional funding programmes serving Wikimedian communities across Sub-Saharan Africa, balancing community needs, movement trends, and geopolitical context to advance Knowledge Equity.
• Manage and monitor the regional grant portfolio to ensure strategic alignment, adherence to funding criteria, and measurable impact outcomes.
• Lead annual grant planning cycles: identify prospective and returning grantees, review proposals, conduct organisational assessments, and co-develop funding rationales with the regional committee.
• Build, onboard, and develop regional funding committees that enable transparent, participatory grantmaking decision-making aligned with regional priorities and opportunities.
• Analyse regional and global patterns to shape funding priorities, design scalable programme activities, and represent Foundation insights internally and externally as a regional ambassador.

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